I was heading towards King's Noodle very late on Saturday night, and I noticed there are new signs up at 346 Spadina, the building that used to house Bright Pearl Seafood. The new name is "Golden Diamond", although a Yellow Pages entry online for the 647-748-6888 phone number lists it as "Gold Diamond". Anyone know who the owners are, what style of cuisine they will be serving, and when it will be opening?

Ha, it does for those that believe in that sort of thing...otherwise not so much. I have a friend who avoids a very popular Cantonese restaurant in the burbs on the belief that it's housed in a former funeral home. There is no way he can be convinced to dine there. So in these cases, there will be a dip (however slight) in business.

They closed down a couple of years ago. Apparently there was some sort of dispute between the restaurant management and the owners of the building. I don't think it had been doing all that well in recent years. The place was always packed for dim sum on weekends, but I was there for dinner during the week a couple of times, and it was pretty much dead.

I don't think your question was answered. There are a lot of rumours about the location, but off the top of my head, either someone died at the location in the stair well, or it used to be a funeral parlour. That's the actual source of the curse. Plus I heard something about an outdoor sign on top of a building across the street that directs sunlight directly at the stairwell where somebody was killed... it's all crazy. And the building might be haunted.